Cameron Dye bested Andy Potts by 47 seconds and Sarah Haskins beat Sara McLarty by 6:06 to win the men’s and women’s titles at the Philadelphia Insurance Triathlon; several women pros DQ’d for missing swim buoys.
by Tim Carlson, June 24, 2012
Viktor Zyemtsev held off Tim O’Donnell on the run and Meredith Kessler slammed the door on the women’s field by nearly 40 minutes to win Ironman Coeur d’Alene Sunday in Idaho.
Romain Guillaume smashed the men’s field by 12:42 in a wire-to-wire victory and Magali Tisseyre dominated the women’s field by 15:11 at the Mt. Tremblant 70.3 Sunday in Quebec
Joe Gambles’ race-best 1:14:27 half marathon ran down swim and bike leader Paul Ambrose and Angela Naeth’s race-best bike and run splits overtook swim leader Jodie Swallow to win Ironman 70.3 Syracuse.
Frederik Van Lierde led from start to finish and grabbed the win at Ironman France in a course record time of 8:21:50. Tine Deckers also broke the course record with a time of 9:16:05 to take the women’s title.
Alistair Brownlee dominated the ITU Kitzbühel World Triathlon Series event with superb efforts during the swim, bike and run. His younger brother Jonathan finished second and Javier Gomez grabbed third.
Sebastian Kienle’s race best bike and run splits helped him capture the 2012 Sparkassen City Triathlon Heilbronn powered by Audi in 2:48:25. Eva Wutti captured the women’s title in 3:14:34.
Swiss Pro Nicola Spirig out-sprinted Sweden’s Lisa Norden to take the win at the 2012 ITU Kitzbühel World Triathlon Series event in 2:05:37. Kiwi Andrea Hewitt rounded out the podium in this quaint Austrian town.
Four years after cancer forced doctors to amputate Jamie Whitmore’s left gluteus, the 37-time XTERRA winner and 5-time XTERRA National champ won another national title – USA Cycling’s Women’s C-3 Paracycling Time Trial.
Lauren Goss is getting ready for the Philadelphia Insurance Triathlon and should feel reasonably confident after a second place at Rev3 Knoxville and a 4th place at Nautica South Beach Triathlon in Miami.
In case you haven’t noticed, short cranks are all the rage. But what’s out there? Will it fit my current bike? How short can you go? We address these questions and more.
Giro Sport Design unveiled a new aero helmet today called Air Attack. This new lid though seems to be defining a new category – the aero road helmet.
Lynskey Performance just announced a LTD Edition Helix OS / SRAM 2012 Red with paint scheme that matches the new SRAM Red group quite nicely – but only 30 will be made.
This suit takes the daring step of removing thickness from the chest, floating the hips and legs higher, to correct body posture. HUUB, and to an extent Rocket Science, mimics this motif. Does this work?
Philip Graves of Great Britain topped Markus Thomschke of Germany by 1:19 and Eimear Mullan of Ireland dominated the women’s field at the always challenging Ironman 70.3 UK.
Lukas Verzbicas ran away from Laurent Vidal and Dimtry Polyansky with a blazing 30:55 to win in his first World Cup; Gwen Jorgenson topped the women to make it a USA sweep at the ITU World Cup in Banyoles, Spain.
Dirk Bockel from Luxembourg won the 2012 Ironman Regensburg in 8:11:59, after a tough battle with German Michael Raelert. Heidi Sessner of Germany took her first Ironman title in 9:43:52 over a relatively weak female field.
At an extraordinary Friday meeting of World Triathlon Corporation’s board of directors, the decision was made to leave in place the anti-doping policy as written.
What is certainly destined to become a jewel in the worldwide series Ironman crown, WTC pulls off a great get. The North Shore event traverses a triangle incorporating Kings Beach, Tahoe City and Truckee.
When Will Clarke found out that he won’t be competing at the London Olympic Games he was stunned and disappointed, but now has a new focus. We had a chat with him about the selection process and moving on.
German-based Schwalbe introduces a host of updated and new product for 2012. This includes the latest entry in to the tubeless market, with some very surprising rolling resistance numbers.
World Triathlon Corporation’s infamous anti-doping policy is not entirely set in stone; Armstrong’s Ironman ban not quite a done deal.
Wildfires and the wide wide world of race production has forced a venue change for the HITS Fort Collins race, now to be conducted in Sterling, CO, 94 miles to the east.
It has been reported in that Lance Armstrong “is banned from competing in triathlon,” and that, “USADA suspends Armstrong over doping investigation.” Not so.
Kiwi Cameron Brown finished second at the 2012 Airport Ironman Cairns and today we look closer at his Shimano equipped Avanti Chrono Evo II.
